Josh Smicker
Biographic Data
| ID | 841418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josh Smicker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josh |
| FAMILY NAME | Smicker |
| SIGNATURE | SMICKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Communication, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Covid-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: Pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies
In this essay I elaborate the concept of 'pathological whiteness' as a way to articulate and understand the ways in which openness to infection, transmission and death by COVID-19 has become a central element of US white conservative subjectivities, discourses and embodied practices during the pandemic. Of particular importance are the ways in which potential or actual infection is understood and enacted as a biological threat to racialized other…
Crisis subjectivities: Resilient, Recuperable, and Abject Representations in the New Hard Times
In this paper, we explore a range of media representations that center on what we identify as crisis subjectivities. These are subjects presented as embodiments of economic and political crises, coming out of a context best described as the propagation of crisis as an ordinary, everyday occurrence. We trace the development of three main types of crisis subjectivities (resilient, recuperable, and abject) within this context, focusing on the ways i…
Crisis subjectivities: Resilient, Recuperable, and Abject Representations in the New Hard Times
In this paper, we explore a range of media representations that center on what we identify as crisis subjectivities. These are subjects presented as embodiments of economic and political crises, coming out of a context best described as the propagation of crisis as an ordinary, everyday occurrence. We trace the development of three main types of crisis subjectivities (resilient, recuperable, and abject) within this context, focusing on the ways i…
Crisis subjectivities: Resilient, Recuperable, and Abject Representations in the New Hard Times
In this paper, we explore a range of media representations that center on what we identify as crisis subjectivities. These are subjects presented as embodiments of economic and political crises, coming out of a context best described as the propagation of crisis as an ordinary, everyday occurrence. We trace the development of three main types of crisis subjectivities (resilient, recuperable, and abject) within this context, focusing on the ways i…
Covid-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: Pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies
In this essay I elaborate the concept of 'pathological whiteness' as a way to articulate and understand the ways in which openness to infection, transmission and death by COVID-19 has become a central element of US white conservative subjectivities, discourses and embodied practices during the pandemic. Of particular importance are the ways in which potential or actual infection is understood and enacted as a biological threat to racialized other…
Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (1 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (1 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works) · Futures contract (1 works) · History (1 works)